Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 1 valid subspecies
Taxonomic history
Status as species:
Linnaeus, 1761 PDF: 427;
Scopoli, 1763 PDF: 313;
Linnaeus, 1767 PDF: 962;
Fabricius, 1775 PDF: 392;
Forskål, 1775: xxiii;
Fabricius, 1782: 489;
Retzius, 1783 PDF: 75;
Geoffroy, 1785: 453;
Fabricius, 1787 PDF: 308;
Razoumowsky, 1789: 225;
Christ, 1791 PDF: 510;
Olivier, 1792: 492;
Fabricius, 1793 PDF: 352;
Latreille, 1798 PDF: 39;
Fabricius, 1804 PDF: 415;
Gravenhorst, 1807 PDF: 287;
Latreille, 1809 PDF: 126;
Billberg, 1820: 104;
Latreille, 1802a PDF: 156;
Walckenaer, 1802: 161;
Fabricius, 1804 PDF: 415;
Latreille, 1817a: 99;
Lamarck, 1817 PDF: 96;
Stephens, 1829b: 357;
Brullé, 1833 PDF: 327;
Losana, 1834 PDF: 317;
Lepeletier de Saint-Fargeau, 1835 PDF: 206;
Nylander, 1846a PDF: 920;
Smith, 1851 PDF: 2;
Schenck, 1852 PDF: 49;
Mayr, 1855 PDF: 355 (redescription);
Smith, 1855a PDF: 109;
Nylander, 1856b PDF: 67;
Gredler, 1858 PDF: 12;
Smith, 1858a PDF: 6, 52;
Mayr, 1861 PDF: 49 (in key);
Meinert, 1861 PDF: 318;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 11;
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 426;
Mayr, 1865 PDF: 55;
Emery, 1869b PDF: 9;
Smith, 1871c: 1;
Dours, 1873 PDF: 165;
Smith, 1874b PDF: 403;
Forel, 1874 PDF: 46 (in key);
André, 1874b: 180 (in key);
Mayr, 1877a: 6;
Emery, 1878a PDF: ix (in list);
Emery, 1878: 47;
Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 452;
Mayr, 1880 PDF: 25;
Saunders, 1880 PDF: 208;
André, 1882c PDF: 192 (in key);
Emery, 1882b PDF: 450;
Costa, 1883: 60;
White, 1884 PDF: 254;
Mayr, 1886d PDF: 429;
Forel, 1886h PDF: 206;
Cresson, 1887 PDF: 257;
Nasonov, 1889: 22;
Forel, 1890b PDF: lxvii;
Lameere, 1892: 64;
Forel, 1892j PDF: 307;
Emery, 1892c PDF: 162;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 187;
Emery, 1893e PDF: 85;
Emery, 1893k PDF: 638;
Medina, 1893 PDF: 105;
Forel, 1894c PDF: 404;
Forel, 1895e PDF: 227;
Ruzsky, 1896 PDF: 71;
Saunders, 1896 PDF: 25;
Forel, 1899b PDF: 127;
Forel, 1900h PDF: 269, 285;
Wheeler, 1900c PDF: 47;
Forel, 1901m PDF: 66;
Ruzsky, 1902d PDF: 16;
Ruzsky, 1903b PDF: 307;
Ruzsky, 1903c PDF: 207;
Ruzsky, 1904a PDF: 288;
Forel, 1904c PDF: 386;
Ruzsky, 1905b: 292;
Wheeler, 1906h PDF: 321;
Wheeler, 1906j PDF: 352;
Wasmann, 1906 PDF: 114 (in key);
Santschi, 1908 PDF: 517;
Wheeler, 1908i PDF: 622;
Bondroit, 1910 PDF: 485;
Yano, 1910a PDF: 421;
Karavaiev, 1912b PDF: 587;
Krausse, 1912c PDF: 165;
Stitz, 1914 PDF: 84;
Emery, 1914c PDF: 159;
Ruzsky, 1914a PDF: 61;
Ruzsky, 1914b PDF: 105;
Forel, 1915d: 53 (in key);
Donisthorpe, 1915f PDF: 200;
Ruzsky, 1916: 5;
Stitz, 1917 PDF: 349;
Wheeler, 1917a PDF: 524;
Emery, 1916a PDF: 240;
Escherich, 1917: 332 (in key);
Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 23;
Nadig, 1918 PDF: 340;
Menozzi, 1918 PDF: 87;
Santschi, 1919e PDF: 246;
Ruzsky, 1920 PDF: 78;
Menozzi, 1922c PDF: 331;
Kulmatycki, 1922 PDF: 80;
Soudek, 1922b PDF: 69;
Müller, 1923b PDF: 124;
Emery, 1924c PDF: 170;
Emery, 1925d PDF: 229;
Kiseleva, 1925 PDF: 74;
Ruzsky, 1925a PDF: 287;
Santschi, 1925f PDF: 88;
Santschi, 1925g PDF: 349;
Lomnicki, 1925b PDF: 2;
Soudek, 1925b PDF: 16;
Wheeler, 1926a PDF: 5;
Betrem, 1926 PDF: 215;
Karavaiev, 1926e PDF: 193;
Menozzi, 1926b PDF: 182;
Santschi, 1926f PDF: 288;
Stärcke, 1926a PDF: 123 (in key);
Donisthorpe, 1927a PDF: 8;
Donisthorpe, 1927c: 229;
Karavaiev, 1927a PDF: 300;
Karavaiev, 1927d: 280 (in key);
Karavaiev, 1927e PDF: 347;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1927e PDF: 188;
Menozzi, 1927b PDF: 91;
Wheeler, 1927e PDF: 3;
Wheeler, 1927g PDF: 118;
Lomnicki, 1928 PDF: 8;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1928b PDF: 19;
Wheeler, 1928c PDF: 38;
Wheeler, 1928d PDF: 120;
Wheeler, 1929g PDF: 10;
Wheeler, 1929h PDF: 58;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929a PDF: 26;
Kuznetsov-Ugamsky, 1929b PDF: 37;
Karavaiev, 1930b PDF: 147;
Wheeler, 1930k PDF: 80;
Karavaiev, 1931b PDF: 32;
Karavaiev, 1931c PDF: 109;
Karavaiev, 1931e PDF: 214;
Santschi, 1931a: 10;
Soudek, 1931 PDF: 13;
Gösswald, 1932 PDF: 53;
Santschi, 1932e PDF: 72;
Santschi, 1932h PDF: 5;
Teranishi, 1932 PDF: 52;
Arnol'di, 1933a: 602 (in key);
Finzi, 1933 PDF: 165;
Santschi, 1933a PDF: 22;
Stitz, 1934: 8;
Grandi, 1935 PDF: 103;
Karavaiev, 1935b PDF: 108;
Zimmermann, 1935 PDF: 47;
Finzi, 1936 PDF: 191;
Karavaiev, 1936: 201 (redescription);
Ruzsky, 1936 PDF: 90;
Santschi, 1936c PDF: 208;
Santschi, 1939c PDF: 5;
Kôno & Sugihara, 1939 PDF: 10;
Teranishi, 1940: 20;
Novák & Sadil, 1941 PDF: 101 (in key);
Eidmann, 1941a PDF: 24;
Santschi, 1941 PDF: 277;
Holgersen, 1943c PDF: 174 (in key);
Stärcke, 1944b PDF: 157 (in key);
Holgersen, 1944a PDF: 181;
Morisita, 1945 PDF: 22;
Ruzsky, 1946 PDF: 69;
Van Boven, 1947b PDF: 185 (in key);
Forsslund, 1947 PDF: 69;
Röszler, 1950 PDF: 219;
Schmitz, 1950 PDF: 14;
Creighton, 1950a PDF: 420;
Azuma, 1950a: 35;
Azuma, 1951 PDF: 88;
Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 202;
Consani & Zangheri, 1952 PDF: 44;
Azuma, 1953 PDF: 4;
Azuma, 1955 PDF: 80;
Wellenius, 1955 PDF: 15;
Wilson, 1955a PDF: 59 (redescription);
Ceballos, 1956: 315;
Bernard, 1956b PDF: 261;
Smith, 1958c PDF: 148;
Bernard, 1959a PDF: 351;
Collingwood, 1961a PDF: 71;
Collingwood, 1962c PDF: 219;
Baroni Urbani, 1964b PDF: 63;
Baroni Urbani, 1964c PDF: 165;
Cagniant, 1964 PDF: 92;
Cagniant, 1966b PDF: 281;
Imai, 1966b PDF: 119;
Beck et al., 1967: 70;
Bernard, 1967a PDF: 355 (redescription);
Yarrow, 1967 PDF: 30;
Cagniant, 1968a PDF: 146;
Kutter, 1968b PDF: 60;
Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969 PDF: 78;
Pisarski, 1969b: 305;
Yamauchi & Hayashida, 1970 PDF: 503;
Dlussky & Pisarski, 1970 PDF: 87;
Collingwood, 1970b: 380;
Cagniant, 1970c PDF: 38;
Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 205;
Collingwood, 1971 PDF: 165;
Banert & Pisarski, 1972 PDF: 353;
Bourne, 1973 PDF: 24;
Baroni Urbani, 1974a PDF: 238;
Bolton & Collingwood, 1975: 7 (in key);
Hunt & Snelling, 1975 PDF: 22;
Pisarski, 1975: 33;
Tarbinsky, 1976 PDF: 134 (redescription);
Collingwood, 1976a PDF: 305;
Azuma, 1977a PDF: 117;
Van Boven, 1977 PDF: 144;
Kutter, 1977c: 227;
Yensen et al., 1977 PDF: 184;
Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 555 (in key);
Báez & Ortega, 1978: 189;
Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 89 (in key);
Collingwood, 1979 PDF: 99;
Francoeur & Snelling, 1979 PDF: 6;
Smith, 1979: 1436;
Yamauchi, 1979 PDF: 152;
Onoyama, 1980a PDF: 199;
Barquín, 1981: 448;
Pisarski & Krzysztofiak, 1981 PDF: 160;
Schembri & Collingwood, 1981 PDF: 439;
Collingwood, 1981 PDF: 27;
Allred, 1982: 481;
Collingwood, 1982 PDF: 287;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a PDF: 58;
Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 282 (in key);
Nilsson & Douwes, 1987: 70;
MacKay et al., 1988 PDF: 118;
Kupyanskaya, 1990a: 219;
Casevitz-Weulersse, 1990c PDF: 430;
Le Moli & Rosi, 1991: 36;
Morisita et al., 1991: 27;
Seifert, 1991b PDF: 71;
Seifert, 1992b PDF: 27 (redescription);
Wang, 1992: 680;
Wu & Wang, 1992c PDF: 1312;
Hohmann et al., 1993: 163;
Arakelian, 1994 PDF: 121;
Radchenko, 1994b: 114 (in key);
Bolton, 1995b: 224;
Douwes, 1995: 94;
Poldi et al., 1995: 8;
Tang et al., 1995: 110;
Wu & Wang, 1995a: 153;
Espadaler, 1997g PDF: 28;
Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 23 (in key);
Gallé et al., 1998: 216;
Collingwood & Heatwole, 2002 PDF: 12;
Czechowski et al., 2002 PDF: 100;
Mackay & Mackay, 2002 PDF: 384;
Zhang & Zheng, 2002 PDF: 219;
Karaman & Karaman, 2003 PDF: 54;
Lin & Wu, 2003: 61;
Csosz & Markó, 2005 PDF: 227;
Karaman & Karaman, 2005 PDF: 57;
Ward, 2005 PDF: 64;
Bračko, 2006 PDF: 149;
Markó et al., 2006 PDF: 68;
Petrov, 2006 PDF: 69, 107 (in key);
Schultz et al., 2006 PDF: 205;
Bračko, 2007 PDF: 20;
Pfeiffer et al., 2007 PDF: 4;
Seifert, 2007: 274;
Werner & Wiezik, 2007 PDF: 154;
Zryanin & Zryanina, 2007 PDF: 234;
Gratiashvili & Barjadze, 2008 PDF: 136;
Borowiec et al., 2009 PDF: 378;
Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009 PDF: 484;
Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010 PDF: 39;
Boer, 2010: 43;
Csosz et al., 2011 PDF: 58;
Karaman, 2011b PDF: 88;
Legakis, 2011 PDF: 27;
Borowiec & Salata, 2012 PDF: 503;
Czechowski et al., 2012: 253;
Guénard & Dunn, 2012 PDF: 33;
Kiran & Karaman, 2012 PDF: 13;
Bharti & Gul, 2013a PDF: 57 (in key);
Borowiec, 2014 PDF: 88 (see note in bibliography);
Bračko et al., 2014 PDF: 20;
Bharti et al., 2016 PDF: 28;
Lebas et al., 2016: 220;
Radchenko, 2016: 360;
Steiner et al., 2017: 11;
Salata & Borowiec, 2018c 10.5281/zenodo.2199191 PDF: 46;
Schär et al., 2018 10.1111/jbi.13380 PDF: 6;
Seifert, 2018: 273;
Werner et al., 2018 PDF: 6;
Rasheed et al., 2019 10.13102/sociobiology.v66i3.4330 PDF: 430;
Seifert, 2020a 10.25674/so92iss1pp15 PDF: 63;
Borowiec & Salata, 2022 PDF: 200 (redescription).
Senior synonym of
Lasius alienoniger:
Wilson, 1955a PDF: 59;
Bernard, 1967a PDF: 355;
Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 206;
Van Boven, 1977 PDF: 144;
Kutter, 1977c: 14;
Smith, 1979: 1436;
Yamauchi, 1979 PDF: 152;
Onoyama, 1980a PDF: 199;
Arakelian, 1994 PDF: 122;
Bolton, 1995b: 224;
Radchenko, 2016: 360.
Senior synonym of
Lasius pallescens:
Roger, 1859 PDF: 238;
Mayr, 1861 PDF: 49 (in key);
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 425;
Roger, 1863b PDF: 11;
Mayr, 1865 PDF: 55;
André, 1874c (in list);
Emery & Forel, 1879 PDF: 452;
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 189;
Donisthorpe, 1915f PDF: 200;
Emery, 1925d PDF: 230;
Donisthorpe, 1927c: 229;
Karavaiev, 1936: 202;
Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 205;
Bolton, 1995b: 224;
Radchenko, 2016: 360.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Americas: Canada,
Mexico,
United States Asia: Afghanistan,
Armenia,
China,
Georgia,
India,
Japan,
Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan,
Maldives,
Mongolia,
Nepal,
North Korea,
Pakistan,
South Korea,
Turkey Europe: Albania,
Andorra,
Austria,
Belarus,
Belgium,
Bulgaria,
Channel Islands,
Croatia,
Czech Republic,
Denmark,
Estonia,
Faroe Islands,
Finland,
France,
Germany,
Gibraltar,
Greece,
Hungary,
Ireland,
Italy,
Latvia,
Liechtenstein,
Lithuania,
Luxembourg,
Macedonia,
Moldova,
Monaco,
Montenegro,
Netherlands,
Norway,
Poland,
Portugal,
Romania,
Russia,
Slovakia,
Slovenia,
Spain,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
United Kingdom Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Indomalaya,
Nearctic,
Palearctic
Distribution Notes:
Found in London.
Also these ants can be found in gardens in leaves, homes.
Biology:
The ants love Honey and Sugar water. Their young also eat small insects.
Also likes nesting in moist areas.
Identification:
Small Black ant. Sometimes seen farming aphids. Similar to other Lasius ants.
Worker: 3-5mm
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
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Lasius niger |
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Forel, A., 1886, Études myrmécologiques en 1886., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 30, pp. 131-215: 76, (download) |
76 |
3923
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Lasius niger |
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Forel, A., 1894, Les formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part IV. Adjonction aux genres Camponotus, Mayr., et Polyrhachis, Shuck., Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 8, pp. 396-420: 404, (download) |
404 |
3951
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Lasius niger |
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Forel, A., 1904, Note sur les fourmis du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences à St. Pétersbourg., Yezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk 8, pp. 368-388: 19, (download) |
19 |
3994
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Lasius niger |
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Smith, F., 1851, List of the specimens of British animals in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. - Hymenoptera Aculeata., London: British Museum: 2-3, (download) |
2-3 |
8200
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Lasius niger |
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Emery, C., 1893, Voyage de M. Ch. Alluaud aux iles Canaries. Formicides., Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 62, pp. 81-88: 85, (download) |
85 |
3764
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Lasius niger |
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Forel, A., 1890, Fourmis de Tunisie et de l'Algérie orientale., Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, Comptes-rendus des Seances 34, pp. 61-76: 67, (download) |
67 |
3926
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Lasius niger |
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Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) |
-1 |
21008
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Lasius niger |
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Collingwood, C. A., 1979, The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark., Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 8, pp. 1-174: 99-100, (download) |
99-100 |
6175
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Specimen Habitat Summary
Found most commonly in these habitats: 1249 times found in Unknown, 695 times found in anthropogenic, 258 times found in dry grassland, 183 times found in heathlands, 168 times found in Wet grassland, 167 times found in Forest, 64 times found in dunes & inland dunes, 52 times found in shrubs, 39 times found in Rocks (rocky-calcareous grasslands), 16 times found in nest under stone, pine forest, rocky loam soil, ...
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 17 times on the ground, 15 times ground foragers, 8 times under stone, 8 times under rock, 5 times on path, 5 times on wall, 5 times ground nest, 2 times nest in soil, 1 times crater nest in soil, 3 times country lane, 2 times Forrajenado, ...
Collected most commonly using these methods: 1398 times Manual catch, 607 times Pitfall trap, 119 times search, 64 times Color trap, 26 times White pitfall, 11 times Hand, 5 times insect net, 5 times Malaise trap, 5 times beating, 5 times White color trap, 2 times hand coll., ...
Elevations: collected from 3 - 2211 meters, 520 meters average
Collect Date Range: collected between 1866-08-21 00:00:00.0 and 2022-07-18 00:00:00.0
Type specimens: type of Lasius niger: casent0903221
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Mexico
United States
India
Madagascar
Canada
Brazil
China
Greece
Spain
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